Gwyneth: Just Exactly What Kind Of Dud?

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Just got off the phone with my friend George, an artist who made teeshirts and handbags which went out as gifts to people going to the BBC4 launch a few weeks back. These are cute and red and she's saving me a set 'cos I didn't go. Anyway, George got a call from Gwyneth Paltrow's 'people' asking if GP could have a set. Hilarity ensued. Me: 'So you did tell them to suck your left one, right?'

George: 'Well, d'oh!'

Me: 'And is it totally my imagination, or does nobody outside other sons and daughters of showbiz actually liker this stupid woman?'

George: 'I bloody hope not, they'd have to be bent in the head. Yucch.'

Me: 'And I have no *real* reason to hate the silly cow, yet I am consumed by a dislike so extreme I cannot quite explain it. And I'd go see the Royal Tenenbaums but she's in it, and it's getting like my No Scientologists film viewing policy.'

George: (Laughs)

Well, nyah, nepotist colonic-irrigating, irritating bitch won't be joining OUR club anytime soon.

suzy, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Creeping, simpering, NO YOU ARE NOT GRACE KELLY New Answers, yo.

suzy, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was talking about this GP aversion the other day after watching The Royal Tenenbaums. Yeah yeah, everyone 'in the know' hates her for being a showbiz daughter and crying in a silly way at the Oscars.

The thing is, she's a fucking good actress so I don't really care. Hollywood is a vomfest. What's new, rockists?

N., Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

what exactly has she done wrong, she looks nice, acts reasonably well, seems rounded, I have no problem with her whatsoever.

chris, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think she's alright apart from THAT Oscar speech. She's moving to London accoring to the paper today which will no doubt illuminate this fair city even more.

Jonnie, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like her acting in TRT, but she comes off as a total spoiled brat snob in real life. In that Vogue article she was talking about changing the wardrobe of an unnamed boyfriend because he "dressed like a townie", and she won't wear vintage clothes because "other people have worn them -- ew!". Just damn irritating.

Nicole, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I do resent all the bollocks Elle cover side of it: 'oh I eat loads and just do yoga, I'm just like you, my love life is terrible too and I get so tired with all this flying aand parties' Please fuck off. She might be alright outside of the sappy gaze of her interviewer though.

I don't mind her as an actress, and she is not the worst offender in the above stakes, she seems to have a brain in her head. I have a J-Lo and Maria Carey boycott, so much so that when I accidentally bought a magazine with bloody Jennifer on the cover (it didn't look like her) I took it back, causing staff in Borders to think me mad. Okay - maybe these are the actions of a mentalist.

Anna, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i larfed non-stop, and so did dr vick

mark s, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's basically the whole Daddy, I Want A Pony ethos embodied in a single human being. Also I can't help, after seeing the Mario Testino show with a whole room of her gob, thinking that she sees two other famous people doing something and decides she wants a piece of that action too. Or someone: she has BOYFRIEND STEALER written all over her, according to pals who went to Spence School in NYC.

suzy, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The more I hear about her, the more I like her.

N., Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And why does she act like she's so educated, when the extent of her schooling is Spence School? It may be a private school, but it's still just high school.

Nicole, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't hate Gwyneth Paltrow that much. Having watched that programme about Oscar fashion last night I must say Helen Hunt is quite scary, her cruel beak and high forehead are bizarre in the worst possible way. Also I hated that shite film with Jack Nicholson.

Ronan, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Helen Hunt is Satan - the high forehead is the mark of the beast.

Nicole, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

She *is* the kind of girl who would nick your botfriend and then try and make you feel bad about it.

Anna, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Gwynnie in Tatler = I buy Tatler (I nevah bought Tatler before)

Jeff W, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

jack nicholson is way more useless than gwyneth paltrow

mark s, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

N: what a surprise; you're falling in like with Frigid Bitch Actress no. 32468. ;-)

I *knew* Nicole would be with me on this one, rational hatred or not, but suddenly I'm feeling more rational about said hatred. She's just an Upper East Side snob as far as I can tell - and anyway, compared to your real Park Avenue debs she's total trailer trash.

suzy, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

girls = hataz

boys = loverz

I'm spotting a pattern here, is anyone else?

chris, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes, girls are silly.

Ronan, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

She *is* the kind of girl who would nick your botfriend

One day, every girl will have a botfriend.

Suzy, you're calling her frigid. That's so cool! It's like school again. Actually, one part of the bad press I heard about her was from a schoolmate who said she was a complete slapper..

N., Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Blinded by hormones...

Anna, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Point taken, Cabbage. Boys find that snobby blonde woman thing very appealing (paging: Alfie Hitchcock) but girls just plain find it irritating, especially if it seems like she's not One Of The Girls.

suzy, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I suspect it would be the other way around if we were discussing, ooh, let's say Ralph Fiennes.

Jonnie, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

they are acTorZoR = they are damaged self-absorbed mentalists [yes yes i know there are exceptions]

i fancy her like zero: i fancy JN more in fact (though ew! btw), but he is way lamer...

mark s, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nah, Ralph Fiennes is baw-ring. I can't be bothered to care.

Nicole, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

JN = Judd Nelson?

Nicole, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

naaaah Jimmy Nail

chris, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No, Ralph Fiennes is a twunt and no, I don't feel irrational or rational hatred for any other actresses. I think your theory would work more on either Jude Law or Ewan McGregor, who were nice enough guys when I met them but I bet most men consider dickheads.

Nicest actor I've met in aeons though is Paddy Considine who's in A Room For Romeo Brass and 24 Hour Party People. Lots of joie de vivre.

suzy, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wouldn't you love to smear shit in Gwyneth Paltrow's face?

Alfred Hitchcock, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No, but I'd like to see her get 'pied'.

suzy, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jude Law is very pretty but obv a bit daft (see Final Cut and marriage to queen smug bitch Sadie Frost).

RickyT, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am a girl (oh yes I am) and I don't mind her. I think she's a bit funny looking but anyone who has met my friends should know I don't hold that against people. Anyone who is saddled with a name like Gwyneth and goes on to Hollywood success is doing ok I reckon. Also my dad fancies her which I think is sweet.

Emma, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm not too keen on Jude Law just cos of all that posturing (and the bad acting), but after seeing Ewan in the jungle with Ray Mears he became my hero for a while, that was an ace programme.

chris, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I still don't quite get this Hitchcock thing, I can't understand it, though N accused me of it recently.

Women seem far more discriminating when it comes to discussing celebrities, is that fair?

I sometimes get the feeling my female friends have constructed personalities for various celebs.

Ronan, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

More evidence that Emma is a geezer bird.

N., Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Naah, Ricky, Sadie's okay (reason I met JL was because SF invited me to her house for a meeting about a project I was doing). She also, on her own steam, invited Katrin Cartlidge and Kate Hardie to come along as well even though she didn't know me from Adam. Yeah, she does the cafe society thing and chooses friends I wouldn't go near, but is probably a good person.

Alfred Hitchcock: had a passive-aggressive relationship to his leading ladies. On the one hand, he put them on pedestals, but on the other hand he took advantage of his position to debase them while they were up there.

suzy, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i wouldn't piss o0n gwynth even if her third nipple were on fire.

Queen G, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

LEAVE ME ALONE.

Emma, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i'd piss on emma though if she asked nicely

Queen G, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thanks but no thanks. I meant for N to leave me alone.

Emma, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

All this talk of celebrity coffee mornings is making me feel queasy.

[Emma, OK. I will leave you alone.]

N., Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think Gwyneth Ploptrot's nice. Can I have a bag too?

PM, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

CROCODILE SHOES!

jel --, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

cowboy dreams

Jonnie, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Gwyneth = not my friend. And Mr. Macgregor seems a nice sort. Have I transcended gender now?

Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Gwyeth = HornXOR.

Dr. C, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

She just seems sort of blank (same expression, same voice) except for her bizzarre-interesting jawline. If I were a female celeb I would hate her cos she's always voted top spot in those best-dressed lists. I find it odd that so many boyz here like her, she seems very asexual. Regarding celebrities you-hate-but-the-opposite-sex-adores my personal aggravation lies with Jessica Alba of Dark Angel fame.

Evangeline, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, but the world loves Gwyneth! Or at least the UK, it seems.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I agree with Evangeline re-being surprised that so many men fancy her. Especially my dad, who was drooling over Catherine Zeta JOnes on the same day as he revealed his lust for Gwynnie. Which is it dad - skinny blonde angular-faced ice maidens or curvaceous brunette Welsh temptresses? (My mum is neither though I suppose curvaceous brunette is closer than skinny blonde).

Emma, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dark Angel? She doesn't annoy me, but the promos for the show have become really desperate-ish.

Nicole, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Errr... Ned I don't think 'memorable' = 'we love her' in this case.

N., Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Don't really care what she does in her own time but haven't noticed any particular acting talent. Perhaps because she's constantly miscast as English Rose etc and talks like she has a voice coach stuck in her throat.

Archel, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

N. do I fancy Gwyneth or do you, I can't remember? surely she's not another Scarlett Johansen?

chris, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Q: Are any actors likeable really? A: No, they are not. They are scum.

As far as the artsies I know go, they are the most uniformly self- absorbed, flakey, and ...ahem... overly dramatic. Worse than musicians even, though marginally less likely to borrow money & die on your bathroom floor. But at least musicians' propensity for overdose thins the ranks out a bit. River Pheonix had the right idea.

Even models basically know they are mannequins, while actors think they are conduits of the great human endeavour even when they're hired to look into a camera and take a big bite out of a Big Xtra with Cheese and smile or kiss Adam Sandler or something.

Look at me, look at me, I'm having an Emotion! Bunch of fucking thespians.

fritz, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There is just certain girls that Maxim/FHM seem to love and Jessica fits into that category. "Ooh her lips are so luscious blah blah but also serves as a role model for young girls with her new-breed of girl power blah blah" Shannon Elizabeth is another. She's so tacky. Erotic like a deodorant stick is!

Evangeline, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hey - it's another Sinister reject. Hello Archel.

GP is astonishingly good in The Royal Tenenbaums. I also thought she was superb in Emma. I haven't seen her in much else, other than The Pallbearer, which no one else will admit to liking, and Seven, in which she had a stupid sappy role.

Chris - we're going to have to start making a list of these. Just so we don't step on each other's toes.

N., Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oops, no offense to Nick "Look at Me I'm Having an Emotion" Dastoor. Or anyone else.

Journalists are even worse than actors, of course.

fritz, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Shannon Elizabeth is as tacky as hell, which is what cracks me up because my boyfriend thinks she's gorgeous. So does that mean I'm tacky too? I wonder about this.

Nicole, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

shit, that was meant to be self-effacing but N.'s a journalist too. I can not escape.

fritz, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

[i am not a journalist, fritz]

N., Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nick is worse than all of those actors, so you're OTM fritz.

Nicole, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

[i am not a journalist, fritz]

just researching a role like what's her name bridget diaries then?

fritz, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No, he just wears underwear like hers.

Nicole, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There are actresses and models I like. I think Natalie Portman is beautiful. She has nice clothes that don't always expose the midriff/breasts. There's dozens of models I find lovely: Shalom Harlow, Monica Belluci, Kristy Hume, Devon Aoki. I just get annoyed with the standard volumized-hair-tug-the-bikini-up-high-on-the-hips model look.

Evangeline, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

**I think Natalie Portman is beautiful**

I do.

**Monica Belluci**

k-hornXOR

**I just get annoyed with the standard volumized-hair-tug-the-bikini- up-high-on-the-hips model look**

I don't.

Dr. C, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Q. How many actresses does it take to change a lightbulb? A. Just one - she holds the lightbulb and waits for the world to revolve around her.

Archel, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The thing is, she's a fucking good actress so I don't really care.

But the thing is she ISN'T a fucking good actress. She's blonde and can speak in complete sentences. I mean, "Shakespeare In Love" was a decent movie, but would have been 8 million times better if Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchet, or even Winona Ryder had played Gwenyth's role. "The Talented Mr. Ripley" was watchable solely because of Jude Law, Phillip Seymour Thomas, Cate Blanchett, and the gay organist guy; Matt and Gwyneth needed to be beaten repeatedly. "Bounce" was all right, but completely boring and uninvolving; ditto "Sliding Doors". "Seven" got it right; keep her in as few scenes as possible, then cut her head off at the end.

Dan Perry, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Gwyneth is bad but never does she reach the depths of sentimental fawning that Helen Hunt does. Yich. Whatever happened to Gwyneth's karoke movie with Huey Lewis? That was in theaters for like, what, a day?

bnw, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ooh, I just remembered Great Expectations! There is a funny 'romantic' scene where Ethan feels up Gwenyth's dress and she puts on her Erotic Face. After that movie my friend always tried to do that water-fountain kiss with me.

Evangeline, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Why are journalists so bad Fritz?

Anna, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It also depends if its a bayonet or a screw light bulb.

Why are bayonet fittings called that? They aren't pointy and deadly weapons like wot real bayonets are?

I rather like GP by the way, and thought that she was actually very good in Sliding Doors. It would have been very, very amusing though to see if she still had a career if she had taken The Avengers job.

Pete, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Cos the bulb fits in the socket in the same way bayonets are fixed to rifles.

RickyT, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ricky = otm

chris, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Cor - imagine how embarrassed you would feel if going over the top at The Somme and when you went to kill the Hun you realised you had fixed a lightbulb to the end of your rifle instead of a bayonet. My how they would laugh in the trenches.

Pete, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bayonet light bulb fitting is called so because old-fashioned rifle bayonets used to be attached in the same push&twist way. G Paltrow? A matter of complete indifference to me, I'm afraid.

Norman Phay, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Maybe that's how bayonet's fit to guns.

Sliding doors, one of the worst films ever made and wins the award for most bizarre london geography, highbury to chelsea bridge in one footfall.

Ed, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It might have brought about a swifter end to WWI - the Germans recognising the slapstick humour and calling off the war in favour of a game of football or 'chase me'.

N., Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pete you would not be able to fit a bayonet bulb to your rifle as I am the only one in our flat who ever bothers to replace lightbulbs despite the fact that it is clearly the job of a trained electrician and by rights I should have to get a man in to do it.

Emma, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was so late with that post.

Ed, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I also comitted an apostrophe catastrophe.

Ed, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And you can't spell 'committed'. Resign!

N., Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Why are journalists so bad Fritz?

Any profession that would have myself and Nick Dastoor as members, etc & so on

fritz, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Light bulb afixed to rifle in WWI- this was an actual idea by a Yank officer by the name of General Electric. A joke to end all jokes.

lawrence kansas, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I wish someone would hurry up and actually write that joke.

N., Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Is there any actor or actress that both guys and girls actually like?

Justyn Dillingham, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Suzy, I'm sort of disappointed in you for starting this thread. It's not like I'm really big on Gwyneth (which by the way I've just decided is the most horrible name ever) but pains me to see her so abused.

Nitsuh, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I liked that short hair-do she had in sliding doors. After seeing it I came *this* close to chopping all of mine off - but then I didn't.

Kim, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I haven't read a single post to this thread. I'd just like to point out that it is now 12:52 am PST on 3/23/02 and there are already 86 posts to this thread.

I.E.: Whether you lurve 'er or 'ate 'er, 'ou 'ave 'oo 'dmit:

ILE IZ OBZEZZD WIT GWINITH!!!!!!!!

PS which means suzy has made some major point huh?

xerxes, Saturday, 23 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nitsuh, I *did* say the hatred wasn't rational, just impressionistic. And I thought it was funny that a friend believed to have no opinion whatsoever on the silly cow hates her enough to refuse to send her a free t-shirt (and I've got another shirt George did for me; a really strange fanfict drawing of Peter O'Toole on a red t-shirt).

Maybe - and this is more rational - it's just that Gwyneth is the closest thing in public life to a shallow, 'popular' high-school girl genuinely liked by no-one except Daddy. And George and I would not be the first art skool girls (or the last - it tells me a lot about the women who don't like GP, because I think it's for the same reasons) to realise she's after our style but couldn't 'do' our substance - so why should we facilitate her copying us? She's AWFUL. We've seen her BEFORE and her ilk gave us THE CREEPS first time around. SHUDDER.

suzy, Saturday, 23 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Gwinif = Bootiful (by many people's standards) + Rich: NOTHING ILE CAN SAY WILL CHANGE THAT.

Suzy's argument = "I know several 8th rate celebs" + "I still have hi skoolesque social issues" = "Gwinif is a BITCH!!!!"

GOOD GOD YOU PEOPLE ARE SMART AND WELL LISTENED AND WELL READ AND WELL CULTURED Y DU U KARE?!?!?!?

PS I am still partially intoxicated so this affects my intonation tho not my intent + Anniversary Party was mostly a good flik partly kausa Gwinif tho mostly kausa ALAN CUMMING etc.

xerxes, Saturday, 23 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Alan Cumming rocks.

Generally speaking, I think it fair to say that the type of people you don't like in school and later in life are disliked for the same reasons. and whatever your rate of celebritude (or not) being cooler than Gwyneth Paltrow is easy. Besides which, most of the people on ILE are better looking to me than she is.

suzy, Saturday, 23 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

most of the people on ILE are better looking to me than she is

Personally, agreed. Tho I have no idea what any of you look like (and also I am queer so not the best judge ha).

Suzy, fer what it's worth, that aggressive-sounding post was meant as a confused corrective ("u r smart: y shood u b botherd?"-type thang) Didn't mean it hatefully. Sorry bout that.

xerxes, Saturday, 23 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You guys hate Helen Hunt-good for you, I do too. How do you feel about Leelee Sobieski (I have no idea if that is spelled right)? She's basically Helen Hunt's (younger) twin with a man's voice.

As for Gwyneth Paltrow I just hate her. Main reason: no matter how many times I spell her name it always looks wrong and stupid. Other reasons: she's an idiot, she apparently only dates other idiots in Hollywood, and she always tries to be the cute blonde girl. Basically she is what I used to call the nitwits in highschool-a diet coke head.

You know what I mean.

Lindsey B, Saturday, 23 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wow, I am never posting drunk again.

xwerxes, Saturday, 23 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nonsense. Please continue.

Ned Raggett, Saturday, 23 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

eight months pass...
I <3 GWYNNIE!!!!

Graham (graham), Sunday, 8 December 2002 17:49 (twenty-three years ago)

This is a great thread.

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 8 December 2002 18:04 (twenty-three years ago)

she's dating the little kid from coldplay.

keith (keithmcl), Sunday, 8 December 2002 21:45 (twenty-three years ago)

wasn't this all just an excuse for mo' superfluous namedropping?

bob zemko (bob), Monday, 9 December 2002 02:23 (twenty-three years ago)

SHe looks like a siamese cat.

Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 9 December 2002 02:33 (twenty-three years ago)

she shoudl adopt her look from austin powers full-time.

keith (keithmcl), Monday, 9 December 2002 05:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Reading this thread has cemented my latest internet crush.

Sean (Sean), Monday, 9 December 2002 06:12 (twenty-three years ago)

seven months pass...
that stewardess movie tanked, didn't it?

g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Friday, 25 July 2003 00:41 (twenty-two years ago)

she's dating the little kid from coldplay.

That means that on a cosmic level they are both being punished, and therefore I am happy. But if the two of them were to die in the freak collapse of a Grade I building, I would have to seriously look at it as an argument in favor of the existence of a just God.

j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 25 July 2003 00:50 (twenty-two years ago)

ten months pass...
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bosko, Monday, 14 June 2004 03:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I do an excellent Gwyneth impression!

Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 14 June 2004 04:10 (twenty-two years ago)

why?

gem (trisk), Monday, 14 June 2004 04:15 (twenty-two years ago)

because I find it funny and some of my friends do too?

Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 14 June 2004 04:48 (twenty-two years ago)

laughter is always good.

i wonder how gwyneth's recent naming or her poor child after a fruit would fit into the context of this thread....

gem (trisk), Monday, 14 June 2004 04:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe the kid's nickname will be "Juice"!

Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 14 June 2004 04:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Whoa. How's this for cruel and catty?

Helen, Monday, 14 June 2004 05:02 (twenty-two years ago)

What's cruel and catty? I actually enjoy Paltrow.

Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 14 June 2004 05:03 (twenty-two years ago)

This very first post set the tone for outright cruelty. I'm not trying to defend some movie star I don't even know or really care about, but that first post just smacked of ugliness. Yuck on them.

Helen, Monday, 14 June 2004 05:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you a random Googler or are you just a bit crap at arguing?

suzy (suzy), Monday, 14 June 2004 07:02 (twenty-two years ago)

This thread is classic and a thing of beauty for the simple reason that it gave us this phrase:

apostrophe catastrophe

Possibly Kate Again (kate), Monday, 14 June 2004 07:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Thank you so much.

Apostrophe Catastrophe (kate), Monday, 14 June 2004 07:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I am ambivalent about GP. However this thread has made me remember how much I hate Helen Hunt, whose career has hopefully vanished for good.

I mean HOLY HELL Mad About You? ahh let's see smarmy Paul Reiser married to appalling Helen Hunt and let's watch them replay the same episode over and over, complete with ultra-nebbishy/schlumpy friends and stereotypical overbearing in-laws and timely homages to Laugh-In and The Dick Van Dyke Show! Reiser had more chemistry with Greg Evigan on My Two Dads! Hunt is about as alluring as a drifter's unclean foot! Fortunately now that Leelee Sobieski is around, sharing DNA with Helen Hunt whilst being 20 years younger and a better actress, we don't need the original nightmare prototype! The ending of Cast Away, far from being a wistful and sad denouement, was instead a joyful moment, where Tom Hanks leaves suburban mediocrity Helen Hunt for a life on the road delivering four years-late Fed Ex packages to hot artist ladies who live in the middle of nowhere! Revel in your freedom, modern-day Robinson Crusoe! no more life with the female Kevin Spacey! rush into happiness, friend!

I don't like her, you see.

Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't get very worked up about GP. TRT was a rub film, Shakespeare in Love was what it was... 'Talented Mr Ripley' is very actually good so nerr. But I can't raise too much hate-feeling.

Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:10 (twenty-two years ago)

She irritates me in the same way that some girls I went to school with irritate me. But I've got quite good at ignoring those sorts of people. I can't actually recall anything she's acted in, which makes me think she's fairly forgettable as an actress (ha ha, literally).

I just can't get that worked up about her. The whole "I'm going to move to England and get an English Boyfriend because Madonna says it's cool!" thing is a bit simpering. But, you know, there are far worse social crimes in the world!

Apostrophe Catastrophe (kate), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:13 (twenty-two years ago)

meh she's annoying that's all, not hateworthy though. although i do think her nasally pseudo-english accent in that movie with simon hannah in it was hateworthy. and i feel a bit sorry for her and mr coldplay's child with its psychological-scar-potential name...

gem (trisk), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:17 (twenty-two years ago)

haha 'Sliding Doors'. Tearible. And yet I have seen it about five times, one way or another.

Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:18 (twenty-two years ago)

What did she name the child? Is it worse than Poppy or Pepper or the other things that English Rock Stars have been naming their children lately?

Apostrophe Catastrophe (kate), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:18 (twenty-two years ago)

a hairdresser talked me into getting my hair cut like her in that movie in 1998, what an absolute debacle, he was apparently in denial of the fact that i have copious amounts of thick wavy hair rather than lank strings. i looked like a human mushroom for several months.

gem (trisk), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:19 (twenty-two years ago)

well at least on a par... she named it apple (i can't recall its sex though)

gem (trisk), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Around the age of 15 the rebellious Apple will rename himself "Worm", listen to nothing but Travis and start knifing bobbies.

Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:20 (twenty-two years ago)

*snigger* we can only live in hope

gem (trisk), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Apple. What gender is it?

The worst child's name I've heard lately is actually Loon. My mum's tennants named their small son Loon. He suffers from some kind of learning disorder. I don't think it's a learning order, I wouldn't talk either if I had that name!

Apostrophe Catastrophe (kate), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:23 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe they just misspelled "Leon" on the birth certificate.

but really, naming a kid Loon and then having him have a learning disability is just the worst luck imaginable.

Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:26 (twenty-two years ago)

The poor kid. He's beautiful, he's really bright, he's quite musical and creative, but he just doesn't talk. Which makes me think, seriously, it's not a learning disorder. He's just embarrassed!

(Yes, I know that's offensive. I work around kids with learning disorders all day long, blah blah, PC, etc.)

Apostrophe Catastrophe (kate), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:28 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe it's not luck, maybe it's some kind of hereditary mental disorder

gem (trisk), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Sometimes I just wonder "what the hell are parents thinking?" A name like that is clearly some kind of "look at our creativity" statement that's all about the parents, totally disregarding the fact that the kid is going to have to grow up with that name. it's great if he is the strong sort whose name will result in the sort of "haha guys, very funny, silly name I know" bantering he can handle, but if he's not, then it's going to be a source of hellish abuse.

Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I didn't speak until I was two and a half. Four months later my sister was born and after the first weekend of having her home, I told my parents I was bored and wanted to take her back to the hospital. What this says is that kids can go from 0-60 in a second with language. He will be saying 'HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME?' very fluently, very soon.

Name that celebrity baby: At least Apple's not some variant on the Lila/Lola/Lala name meme that seems to have infected the communal brain cell shared by Kate Moss and pals, which is worse than the food group names chosen by women who do not actually eat. I don't like 'ba-ba, goo-goo' names and I tremble with trepidation at even the *idea* of Pish Spice choosing a name for a girl baby.

suzy (suzy), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:34 (twenty-two years ago)

totally agree gear. it seems so arrogant to say "we'll raise the kind of child who'll be above bullying, nasty name calling will just bounce off his confident exterior".

gem (trisk), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Sara Cox's new kid is called Lola. I quite like it as a name (ref Fassbinder, Demy AND Sternberg!).

Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:36 (twenty-two years ago)

AND Ophuls!

Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Courtney Cox should name her kid Ophuls!

Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm pretty sure that with the parents the poor kid will wind up hoarding McDonalds wrappers under the sofa and get busted for Nestlé bar possession.

NB I think it wauld take Sara Cox about three tries to say Fassbinder correctly. All the girls are giving their spawn stupid Lala names, whereas the boys all get named Alfred or Frederic.

suzy (suzy), Monday, 14 June 2004 08:41 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...
header on today's guardian, something like: "I love english people. they talk about interesting things at dinner parties."

annoying

don't really mind her, usually, though

read suzy's initial post and like gwyneth more, as a result

RJG (RJG), Friday, 27 January 2006 16:27 (twenty years ago)

i think poppy is a nice name.

ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 27 January 2006 16:46 (twenty years ago)

I thought it was normally an honor if celebrities wear a lesser-known designers stuff, because it really boosts their credentials and recognizability. Strikes me as shooting oneself in the foot.

jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 27 January 2006 16:55 (twenty years ago)

apple blythe alison martin is a nice name

cozen (Cozen), Friday, 27 January 2006 19:51 (twenty years ago)

If they have a son I hope they him Pincher

Dittoismus (Dada), Friday, 27 January 2006 19:56 (twenty years ago)

snapple

latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 27 January 2006 20:02 (twenty years ago)

Astin

jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 27 January 2006 20:02 (twenty years ago)

A BAM

RJG (RJG), Friday, 27 January 2006 20:03 (twenty years ago)

she can't act at all
i had to serve her tea once
Hardly a high point

Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 27 January 2006 20:34 (twenty years ago)

what a cringey thread

s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:09 (twenty years ago)

I don't really understand the ongoing Gwyneth/Helen Hunt comparison bubbling throughout.

Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:11 (twenty years ago)

s1ocki YOU ARE NOT GRACE KELLY dahling

Serge Protecteur (nordicskilla), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:14 (twenty years ago)

Ally you'll never be ROSARIO DAWSON no matter how much you practice, dear.

Serge Protecteur (nordicskilla), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:18 (twenty years ago)

Well you're not exactly JUDE LAW himself, are you?

Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:28 (twenty years ago)

...no

Serge Protecteur (nordicskilla), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:28 (twenty years ago)

I don't do coke or fuck around enough. :(

Serge Protecteur (nordicskilla), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:28 (twenty years ago)

I've never been in a movie with Colin Farrell. We all have our failings.

Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:30 (twenty years ago)

If they have a son I hope they him Pincher

Or Hugh Whittaker House

charlie (Holey), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:39 (twenty years ago)

She was really embarrassing as Syvia Plath.

Abbott (Abbott), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:42 (twenty years ago)

Interestingly, I'm very much like Michael York.

xxpost

Jimmy Mod (I myself am lethal at 100 -110dB) (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:42 (twenty years ago)

i've always thought you were more steve mcqueen

mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:47 (twenty years ago)

ally: teh gwyn and hunt were back 2 back oscar winners, weren't they? Or close to it? I guess for awhile they were supposed to be AMONGST THE BEST ACTRESSES OF THEIR GENERATION or some shit.

Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:59 (twenty years ago)

Why thank you!

xpost.

I am alive, however.

Jimmy Mod (I myself am lethal at 100 -110dB) (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 27 January 2006 22:01 (twenty years ago)

The Hunt-Paltrow combo pretty much cemented the exact uselessness of the Best Actress award.

Dan (My Eyes Are Rolling As I Type This) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 27 January 2006 22:02 (twenty years ago)

Helen Hunt won an Oscar?!?!?!

Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Friday, 27 January 2006 22:11 (twenty years ago)

Next you'll be telling me Marissa Tomei did too.

Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Friday, 27 January 2006 22:11 (twenty years ago)

My Eyes Are Rolling As I Type This

its a given, dan

mark p (Mark P), Friday, 27 January 2006 22:12 (twenty years ago)

Ally, I was pulling for Fred Gwynne for best actress that year, but those fuckers cheated him yet again.

Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 27 January 2006 22:26 (twenty years ago)

Fucking Yalies.

Dan (Nepotism) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 27 January 2006 22:40 (twenty years ago)

this thread has turned me into a gwyneth paltrow fan, and all it took was reading the first post

gear (gear), Friday, 27 January 2006 23:00 (twenty years ago)

meh. she bullied my friend at school.

lauren (laurenp), Friday, 27 January 2006 23:07 (twenty years ago)

yet i *am* consumed by a dislike so extreme i cannot quite explain it

xp

mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 27 January 2006 23:08 (twenty years ago)

this thread has turned me into a gwyneth paltrow fan, and all it took was reading the first post

OTM

Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 28 January 2006 15:38 (twenty years ago)

that first post has to be some sort of parody

s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 28 January 2006 16:43 (twenty years ago)

meh. she bullied my friend at school

oh do tell

john clarkson, Saturday, 28 January 2006 16:44 (twenty years ago)

"well, d'oh"?

Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 28 January 2006 16:46 (twenty years ago)

hilarity ensued!

s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 28 January 2006 16:48 (twenty years ago)

who is in "OUR club"?

gear (gear), Saturday, 28 January 2006 18:50 (twenty years ago)

It's utter pinheads like suzy that make me warm to people like GP.

Merryweather (scarlet), Saturday, 28 January 2006 19:05 (twenty years ago)

I think Helen Hunt deserved the Oscar she got for As Good As It Gets. And I don't really understand seething hate towards seemingly random celebrities. Surely there are people in the world more worthy of such hate, like tyrants or dictators? I don't think she's the best actress of our era, but I've liked every Gwyneth Paltrow film I've seen, including Sliding Doors.

Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 28 January 2006 19:31 (twenty years ago)

meh. she bullied my friend at school

oh do tell

not much to tell, really... extremely wealthy child of famous parents at an exclusive private school treats geekier, much less wealthy classmate like dogshit.

lauren (laurenp), Saturday, 28 January 2006 19:35 (twenty years ago)

fantastic - my prejudices validated, beneath that pilates perfect macrobiotic holisticness lurks a truly nasty shallow little person

john clarkson, Saturday, 28 January 2006 21:09 (twenty years ago)

GP was the best actor/character/storyline in The Royal Tenenbaums. It seemed written right to her range and persona. I'm pretty sure nothing she's done before or since has been worth seeing.

Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Saturday, 28 January 2006 21:16 (twenty years ago)

Child o' privelege in being stuck-up bitch shokah!

She truly is awful in interviews, so superior and in love with her own tastes, choices etc. Easy when you've had people open doors for you your whole life. And her voice GRATES - whiny, nasally, aarrrghhhh!
That said, she is not untalented, she's was good in TRT, and showed some decent comedy chops on SNL. OTOH, Shakespeare In Love is an overrated piece of shit, even by the standards of Oscar winners, and she's not so good in it.

anna graham, Saturday, 28 January 2006 21:25 (twenty years ago)

oh shit. SNL. that's why I'll never be able to hate Gwyneth Paltrow. "Rain forests are the DEVIL!"

also, she's so pretty.

horsehoe, Saturday, 28 January 2006 23:28 (twenty years ago)

she's a totally decent actress. judging actors by how stuck-up they are in real life strikes me as somewhat missing the point

slocki at antexit's house (antexit), Sunday, 29 January 2006 00:37 (twenty years ago)

SHE NEEDS TO EAT.

latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 29 January 2006 01:05 (twenty years ago)

From the puke-making Guardian article :

Paltrow gave up her flat in Belgravia when she realised that she was "the only person there under 65. I love north London; it feels much more alive."

Which part of north London does she live in exactly? I mean, what? Burnt Oak? Also :

"I basically stopped making money from acting in 2002. All the things I've done since then have been things I've really wanted to do, and I have not made money from them."

Eh?? She works for free??

Matt #2 (Matt #2), Sunday, 29 January 2006 01:25 (twenty years ago)

Also :

Her daughter is showing signs of an English accent already. "Her A's are very English - she says 'war-ter' and 'war-lk'. She says mummy instead of mommy. I don't mind that. I will if she starts saying 'basil' and 'pasta' the English way, which really drives me nuts."

There's more than one way to pronounce those words?
I love random celebrity hate.

Matt #2 (Matt #2), Sunday, 29 January 2006 01:27 (twenty years ago)

"Pasta" can be "pah-sta" or a flat short-a "pasta". The former seems more common in the US than in Canada AFAICT. Dunno what's common in the UK. I didn't know there were variants for "basil" either.

I really liked GP in TRT.

Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 29 January 2006 01:31 (twenty years ago)

I guess she could have been making a lot more money with other projects (vs. Sky Captain, Proof, etc.), but I'm not sure she was ever a bankable $20mln per picture actress like Angelina Jolie or something.

Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Sunday, 29 January 2006 02:49 (twenty years ago)

It's bah-zil in the UK, bayzil in the US. I think. I always thought everyone pronouced oregano as "oh-reh-GAH-noh" until I saw Heathers and realised Americans pronounced it as "aw-REH-ga-noh". It's not a thing I talk about much, mind.

ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 29 January 2006 12:14 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, I forgot about the point of the thread. Gwyneth strikes as someone I would never be able to have a conversation with about anything in real life. She hasn't done anything to upset me, I just can't see that I can relate to her in any way at all. I've not seen that many of her films, but she's been very convincing in everything I've ever seen her in. She certainly does a very good English accent, and I *liked* Sliding Doors.

Anyway, this doesn't make her dud. Or classic. She's just there, and there's nothing really wrong with her.

ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 29 January 2006 12:24 (twenty years ago)

which makes her dud as a default position, surely aisla?

john clarkson, Sunday, 29 January 2006 12:40 (twenty years ago)

"Pasta" can be "pah-sta" or a flat short-a "pasta"

Saying "pah-sta" makes you the worst person in the world. It's pasta. Pasta.

Markelby (Mark C), Sunday, 29 January 2006 12:42 (twenty years ago)

ailsa even

john clarkson, Sunday, 29 January 2006 12:43 (twenty years ago)

I like hyperbole as much as the next guy but not, I guess, if the next guy is markelby

RJG (RJG), Sunday, 29 January 2006 12:46 (twenty years ago)

John, if I don't think she's either classic or dud, there isn't a default setting. I don't think she's dud, I said that. She can act, and she doesn't seem a *bad* person, just not one that I find terribly interesting.

ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 29 January 2006 12:46 (twenty years ago)

"English" accents in films usually really annoy me. Even if it's an English actor, I think "why are they talking like that? who talks like that?"
Gwyneth's English accent voice annoys me less than Jude Law's. But nothing is worse than Jude Law being American.

I say basil like "bazzle" with a short a.

Cathy (Cathy), Sunday, 29 January 2006 13:12 (twenty years ago)

yes. anyone who says 'bah-zil' should be beaten, by markelby.

Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Sunday, 29 January 2006 13:27 (twenty years ago)

In my head, bah-zil is the same pronunciation as bazzle.

ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 29 January 2006 13:30 (twenty years ago)

compromisingly, I think I say "bahzzle"

maybe the longer or ah-y a is more scottish

RJG (RJG), Sunday, 29 January 2006 13:32 (twenty years ago)

but that is not for this thread, really

this thread is for saying gwyneth's less annoying than suzy, I think

RJG (RJG), Sunday, 29 January 2006 13:33 (twenty years ago)

"this thread is for saying gwyneth's less annoying than suzy, I think"

oh dear.

why so?

Nathalie (stevie nixed), Sunday, 29 January 2006 15:20 (twenty years ago)

Just got off the phone with my friend George, an artist who made teeshirts and handbags which went out as gifts to people going to the BBC4 launch a few weeks back. These are cute and red and she's saving me a set 'cos I didn't go. Anyway, George got a call from Gwyneth Paltrow's 'people' asking if GP could have a set. Hilarity ensued. Me: 'So you did tell them to suck your left one, right?'

George: 'Well, d'oh!'

Me: 'And is it totally my imagination, or does nobody outside other sons and daughters of showbiz actually liker this stupid woman?'

George: 'I bloody hope not, they'd have to be bent in the head. Yucch.'

Me: 'And I have no *real* reason to hate the silly cow, yet I am consumed by a dislike so extreme I cannot quite explain it. And I'd go see the Royal Tenenbaums but she's in it, and it's getting like my No Scientologists film viewing policy.'

George: (Laughs)

Well, nyah, nepotist colonic-irrigating, irritating bitch won't be joining OUR club anytime soon.

-- suzy (theartskooldisk...), March 22nd, 2002 1:00 AM. (link)

RJG (RJG), Sunday, 29 January 2006 15:26 (twenty years ago)

four years ago

Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Sunday, 29 January 2006 15:47 (twenty years ago)

'colonic-irritating' would've been better

Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Sunday, 29 January 2006 15:52 (twenty years ago)

In the US it's bah-shizzle, innit?

Aimless (Aimless), Sunday, 29 January 2006 16:37 (twenty years ago)

i had a friend named basil. the jazz professor at college insisted his name was "brazil."

hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 29 January 2006 16:39 (twenty years ago)

Pasta is one thing, but the "oregano" thing is beyond me. I don't know anyone who says oregano this supposed Heathers way of doing it!

Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Sunday, 29 January 2006 23:58 (twenty years ago)

The growly voice that does pronunciations for Answers.com says it that way!

http://www.answers.com/oregano&r=67

reddening (reddening), Monday, 30 January 2006 07:38 (twenty years ago)

I don't know anyone who says oregano this supposed Heathers way of doing it!

I do, and nearly everyone I've met does.

Thing is, "oh-reh-GAH-no" seems like it makes more sense inasmuch as it sounds more properly Italian.

And so, for that matter, does PAH-sta, and I'm still amazed that Mark, with his Italian lineage, keeps insisting on what sounds like an ugly American pronunciation.

jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 30 January 2006 07:49 (twenty years ago)

RJG, I think it was/is hilarious what Suzy posted. I too hate Gwyneth for reasons I can't even come up with. It's just silly, but I do. I look at her and froth at the mouth. *shrug*

Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 30 January 2006 08:02 (twenty years ago)

Actually I had no idea that anyone didn't pronounce "oregano" with the accent on the second syllable.

Sundar (sundar), Monday, 30 January 2006 08:07 (twenty years ago)

the scientiologists prey on those who are rich and weak.

Mr. Latham Green (hanle y 3000), Monday, 30 January 2006 08:14 (twenty years ago)

nathalie, your motives for hating GP seem much more reasonable, in their lack of reason -- it wasn't inexplicable hate that my prob was w/, at all

RJG (RJG), Monday, 30 January 2006 10:17 (twenty years ago)

"oh-reh-GAH-no" may sound italian but isn't (which is odd as italian almost always stresses the penultimate syllable). Pasta (short a, as in cat) is the Italian way of pronouncing it, therefore it's correct. Pah-sta is just overcomplicating things.

Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 30 January 2006 11:18 (twenty years ago)

Italian has a short a sound?!

jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 30 January 2006 14:38 (twenty years ago)

He's right on the oregano thing, and like I said, I know no one who pronounces it that way! I am actually kind of appalled by this. Maybe people in NYC all say oregaNO and not oregaaaaano? Cue NYC ILXor (natives only) to tell me this is untrue. I have no idea but I've never met anyone who pronounced it different from me, in America or otherwise.

Of course I haven't had much call to have random conversations with strangers about oregano.

Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Monday, 30 January 2006 15:14 (twenty years ago)

No, both of those sound weird to me. "o-RE-ga-no" is what I'm used to.

Sundar (sundar), Monday, 30 January 2006 17:16 (twenty years ago)

yeah i didn't hear it either until i watched some bbc cooking shows.

Kim (Kim), Monday, 30 January 2006 17:36 (twenty years ago)

The only movie I remember blaming her for was Great Expectations, but I think I was just resenting the overuse of skinny blondes in period films at that point. She was great in Se7en, Hard Eight, Emma, A Perfect Murder, The Royal Tenenbaums, and Shallow Hal. She's been funny and self-deprecating on Conan and SNL. I don't remember her ruining Flesh and Bone (Eastwood warmup), Malice (self-knowing trash), Shakespeare in Love (enjoyable period cheese), The Talented Mr. Ripley (actor showcase), or Bounce (Affleck vehicle). And I don't remember disliking her in the ones I hated: Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, Sliding Doors, Austin Powers in Goldmember, or The Anniversary Party.

Pete Scholtes (Pete Scholtes), Monday, 30 January 2006 19:39 (twenty years ago)

The only film in which she was really stunning was Flesh & Bone, but she was rather fine in Hard Eight (my favorit PT Anderson joint) and playing the troll (and miscast) in The Talented Mr Ripley.

She was a better Sylvia Plath in The Royal Tenenbaums than when she starred in her own Plath biopic.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 30 January 2006 19:45 (twenty years ago)

I don't think the Sylvia Plath thing was her fault, though; that movie was awful. I remember thinking she was perfectly cast before I saw it...she's most compelling when she's playing the sad girl, and she kind of looks like Plath. She doesn't have a lot of range, but she does that sad, Margot Tenenbaum thing perfectly.

horseshoe, Monday, 30 January 2006 19:59 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

wow, god i just saw "sylvia" and just, wow.

Tracer Hand, Monday, 4 June 2007 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

run go see it if you can't wait to see gwyneth paltrow joyfully reciting old english on a rowboat, as well as a late night "poetry session" where poets sit around the kitchen table smoking cigarettes and listening to charlie parker and saying poems as fast as they can, awkwardly egging each other on like some ed sullivan version of jazz musicians

Tracer Hand, Monday, 4 June 2007 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

ok, i have not and will not see that. I don't mind gwenny all that much. This thread is disproportionately hateful.

Besides, why hate on Gwenny when there is Cameron Diaz in the world?

kenan, Monday, 4 June 2007 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

Things you'd like to see Cameron Diaz do

kenan, Monday, 4 June 2007 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

But in a culture that has given us Jane Fonda workout tapes, Paul Newman salad dressing, fashion and perfumes from J. Lo, Madonna children’s books, and furniture and clothing by the Olsen twins, why is Ms. Paltrow the victim of such ridicule?

Cause she's a boring stuck-up bitch. There are few people I hate more than Paltrow. Dunno why, but the mere sound of her name makes me froth at the mouth.

Nathalie (stevienixed), Sunday, 1 March 2009 13:36 (seventeen years ago)

Heh.

u s steel, Sunday, 1 March 2009 21:56 (seventeen years ago)

nepotist colonic-irrigating, irritating bitch won't be joining OUR club anytime soon

max, Sunday, 1 March 2009 21:59 (seventeen years ago)

I laugh at all the Gwyneth hate.

u s steel, Sunday, 1 March 2009 22:10 (seventeen years ago)

reading that article it must have been a bit of a waste of time her being in a cookery show traveling through Spain if she's a "quasi-vegan". Is there any Spanish dish without pork in it?

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony ft Phil Collins (jim), Sunday, 1 March 2009 22:12 (seventeen years ago)

I don't hate Gwyneth Paltrow that much. Having watched that programme about Oscar fashion last night I must say Helen Hunt is quite scary, her cruel beak and high forehead are bizarre in the worst possible way. Also I hated that shite film with Jack Nicholson.

― Ronan, Thursday, March 21, 2002 8:00 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

dying at "cruel beak" here

and what, Sunday, 1 March 2009 22:20 (seventeen years ago)

three months pass...

The summer before last, a mutual friend brought the lovely Katie Lee Joel and her husband William over for dinner.

William Joel?!?!

Hatfail of Hollow (Nicole), Thursday, 11 June 2009 17:27 (seventeen years ago)

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c287/expatrica/9614483.gif

sloth say hi to me (ENBB), Thursday, 11 June 2009 17:32 (seventeen years ago)

classical suzy thread over here

conrad, Thursday, 11 June 2009 17:36 (seventeen years ago)

nine months pass...

NASHVILLE

I just spent a few months living and working in Nashville, Tennessee which was an incredible experience. As I’m apt to do, I researched, ate, drank, tried, and asked my way around the city ‘til I found the best spots it has to offer. Never have I met such warm people, heard such good music, eaten so much fried chicken...I could go on and on. This week’s letter will cover the music/food and next week's will cover the rest. It's pretty easy to get to if you live in the good ol’ US of A as it’s kind of smack dab in the middle (well, not really, but almost) and is so worth a trip. It's pretty damn great.

Love,

Gwyneth

velko, Saturday, 20 March 2010 20:13 (sixteen years ago)

she was good in iron man 1

abanana, Saturday, 20 March 2010 23:45 (sixteen years ago)

Can't lie, I love her.

franny glass, Sunday, 21 March 2010 02:26 (sixteen years ago)

I find GOOP hilariously self-indulgent to the point of camp. I didn't know people disliked her--she seems totally OK to me?

gabourey voltaire (Stevie D), Sunday, 21 March 2010 02:59 (sixteen years ago)

GOOP gave me a nice mulled wine recipe. And by nice I mean my friends and I took two sips and chose not getting drunk over drinking it. It sat in my fridge for months til it was thrown out.

gabourey voltaire (Stevie D), Sunday, 21 March 2010 03:01 (sixteen years ago)

females hate her for mysterious reasons

triumph of the will the insult comic dog (zvookster), Sunday, 21 March 2010 03:03 (sixteen years ago)

the morning after that awful oscar speech my friend rang me and shouted, 'she's nothing but a pink sack of shit.'

estela, Sunday, 21 March 2010 03:19 (sixteen years ago)

however i can't truly hate anyone who's apt to try their way around a city.

estela, Sunday, 21 March 2010 03:24 (sixteen years ago)

I find it hard to have an opinion on her. My sister wishes she were Margot Tennenbaum (though you would not guess it from her appearance or demeanor), which I think is cute.

demonic splendor, demonic majesty (Abbott), Sunday, 21 March 2010 03:31 (sixteen years ago)

i bet she's sad she can't be in YOUR club

harbl, Sunday, 21 March 2010 03:39 (sixteen years ago)

females hate her for mysterious reasons

Stuck-up, vacuous, self-centered, vain, arrogant bitch seems a good enough reason to dislike someone.
Okay, that's what I deduce from interviews and articles. This means I should read less of course. lol

Nathalie (stevienixed), Sunday, 21 March 2010 10:42 (sixteen years ago)

one of my theories was that males don't pay attention to the media she comes across badly in

triumph of the will the insult comic dog (zvookster), Sunday, 21 March 2010 14:44 (sixteen years ago)

Never have I met such warm people, heard such good music, eaten so much fried chicken

nakhchivan, Sunday, 21 March 2010 14:57 (sixteen years ago)

I thought she was vegetarian or something?

mh, Sunday, 21 March 2010 15:14 (sixteen years ago)

i thought it was one of whiney's posi tweets for RS

triumph of the will the insult comic dog (zvookster), Sunday, 21 March 2010 15:27 (sixteen years ago)

her oscar speech was terrible. also i think she started the trend of best actress winners trying to force a tear out and failing.

abanana, Sunday, 21 March 2010 15:47 (sixteen years ago)

she already got this hate prior tho

triumph of the will the insult comic dog (zvookster), Sunday, 21 March 2010 15:56 (sixteen years ago)

what is suzy's club exactly

iatee, Sunday, 21 March 2010 16:00 (sixteen years ago)

haters are ignoring the fact that she's v v pretty.

horseshoe, Sunday, 21 March 2010 16:03 (sixteen years ago)

no they aren't, but it's the wrong kind of pretty somehow

triumph of the will the insult comic dog (zvookster), Sunday, 21 March 2010 16:13 (sixteen years ago)

I guess the club would be the Getting Places Without Nepotism club? Only one I've ever been in.

ned ragú (suzy), Sunday, 21 March 2010 16:38 (sixteen years ago)

nepotism evidently helps u get into clubs

she's bland as fuck but not quite as drippy as her husband

nakhchivan, Sunday, 21 March 2010 17:27 (sixteen years ago)

the reliably mental and entertaining goop newsletter made paltrow a lot more ridiculous (and a lot less annoying) to me

لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Sunday, 21 March 2010 17:48 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

Gwyneth Paltrow is known for her slender frame, but immediately after playing " Iron Man 's" sexy assistant Pepper Potts in the film's sequel, she plumped up -- on purpose.

The actress headed to Nashville , where she filmed " Love Don't Let Me Down," a project where audiences will see her starring as a musician, one who her boss said needed to have a fuller figure.

"Basically, I play a country western singer and I had been in great shape for ' Iron Man 2' and the director said, 'I don't want you to be so muscle-y,'" Gwyneth explained to Access Hollywood 's Tony Potts on Monday at the junket for " Iron Man 2" in Los Angeles. "So it wasn't so much gaining weight as [a means of] just trying to soften up the edges a bit and not work out so much."

Gwyneth revealed she added double digits to her tender frame.

"I gained probably like 10 pounds," she said.

The actress attempted to indulge a little more, but a hefty work schedule kept the pounds from packing.

"Yeah, I tried to gain more, but I think I was also working so hard and such long hours that, you know, it was offset -- my Bridget Jones attempt," she laughed.

Lest anyone think she is superhuman, Gwyneth revealed taking off the weight wasn't a breeze.

"Much tougher to take it off! Oh my God," Gwyneth exclaimed. "It was hard."

So how did she do it?

"Diet and exercises," she noted, adding that she worked out to DVDs from her trainer Tracy Anderson, who has also helped sculpt the body of Madonna .

"It's just fantastic," Gwyneth said of her Tracy workouts. "I love eating and food so much and if I do cardio then I can eat and that means the world to me so I do it everyday."

dispariiiijjjj 'white ppl' (velko), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:12 (sixteen years ago)

I love that "double digits" equals maybe, just barely squeaking to ten pounds. How awful.

he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:17 (sixteen years ago)

I'm not up on Iron Man continuity, but is Pepper Potts supposed to turn into a pilates parcour ninja to avenge Tony at some point?

Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:23 (sixteen years ago)

(just wondering why you'd have to be ripped to use a dayplanner)

Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:25 (sixteen years ago)

i love eating and food so much

where display names die, unrecognized (Lamp), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:26 (sixteen years ago)

i hate gwyneth paltrow so much

Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:27 (sixteen years ago)

If you do cardio, you get to hate her every day.

Walter Melon (Abbott), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:28 (sixteen years ago)

lol!

Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:28 (sixteen years ago)

I thought she was vegetarian or something?

macrobiotic -- i think chicken is allowed.

i remember her bigging up her favorite l.a. taco joints!

altered dominant (get bent), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:54 (sixteen years ago)

regarding the "oregano" discussion upthread, i have always stressed the second syllable. o - REG - a - no. that's how i've heard it my whole life, except for that one simpsons episode where marge goes "o - re - GAHN - o? what the hell??"

altered dominant (get bent), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 03:01 (sixteen years ago)

Huh? There's a hate-Gwyneth thing? Well, I've read some of the comments and I'm still flummoxed. When such loathing can be engaged, I usually put it down to having an axe to grind somewhere down deep. As far as the Oscar speech, I saw it on TV way back when, and at the time, just watching passively, casually, I took her to be mortified that she'd won. As I remember, she'd been savaged even before that, by one of the other nominees, the gist of whose comments were that she was young, blond, and pretty.

B'wana Beast, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 04:19 (sixteen years ago)

you all saw this right? you only need to read the headline, really.

http://www.theonion.com/video/iron-man-2-buzz-heats-up-over-rumors-gwyneth-paltr,17275/

abanana, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 04:53 (sixteen years ago)

I'm not up on Iron Man continuity, but is Pepper Potts supposed to turn into a pilates parcour ninja to avenge Tony at some point?

― Philip Nunez, Monday, April 26, 2010 10:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Haha, actually the answer is "Yes." In a recent arc in the "Invincible Iron Man" title, Tony Stark had to go on the run, but left behind a new suit he created for Pepper so he could continue his work as Iron Man.

http://www.comiclist.com/media/blogs/news/InvincibleIronMan_11_SecondPrinting.jpg

Obama, Wellstone and Darwinfish, Attorneys (Pancakes Hackman), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 11:11 (sixteen years ago)

lady suit must have tits

goole, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 18:30 (sixteen years ago)

iron tits

max, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 18:41 (sixteen years ago)

"What are you staring at, Iron Tits?"

http://www.diggersrealm.com/mt/archives/20060801/mel-gibson-mugshot.jpg

Obama, Wellstone and Darwinfish, Attorneys (Pancakes Hackman), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 18:46 (sixteen years ago)

http://videogum.com/174932/gwyneth-paltrow-finds-ways-to-tolerate-her-children/celebrity-gossip/

no turkey unless it's a club sandwich (polyphonic), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 18:57 (sixteen years ago)

http://www4.pictures.zimbio.com/fp/Iron+Man+2+World+Premiere+Arrivals+2+px36T1Gfxqpl.jpg

velko, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 19:06 (sixteen years ago)

Nice gams.

Bill Magill, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 19:47 (sixteen years ago)

kind of a shame she got the legs of her pantsuit torn off in the limo door tho

Marriage, that's where I'm a Viking! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 19:55 (sixteen years ago)

gabe on gwyneth is the best thing ever

J0rdan S., Tuesday, 27 April 2010 20:00 (sixteen years ago)

Gwyneth has this amazing ability to say incredibly annoying, borderline awful things in a really sweet, nice and relatable voice, so when you hear her talking you're usually going "oh, that's nice" but when you see it quoted later you're like "OMG HARPY"

Marriage, that's where I'm a Viking! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 20:05 (sixteen years ago)

two months pass...

Gwyneth Paltrow may be a "gangling ectomorph" today, but she struggled to lose weight after giving birth to her second child in 2006.

"After my first pregnancy, the weight had come off a little bit better but after the second one it was really stubborn. It was really hanging on," she said, according to the Press Association. "It was not easy and, when I started it, it was by far the hardest thing I have ever done - but I really was seeing results so it motivated me to just work through it."

Gwyneth works out two hours a day and lost the baby weight with the help of her celebrity trainer, Tracy Anderson. Still, she says there is no excuse for anyone without the same resources not to get her pre-baby body back.

"Every woman can make time - every woman - and you can do it with your baby in the room," she said. "There have been countless times where I've worked out with my kids crawling around all over the place. You just make it work, and if it's important to you, it'll be important to them."

buzza, Sunday, 11 July 2010 20:54 (fifteen years ago)

She named her child Apple. Never forget.

Aimless, Monday, 12 July 2010 05:04 (fifteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-pFsBVyMew

buzza, Monday, 2 August 2010 16:35 (fifteen years ago)

i can never think of her now without flashing back to an old ilx thread on seven where dang perry (i believe) concluded that seven was the best movie ever made due to it ending with her head in a box and immediately demanded that all movies made from that point on end with gwyneth's head in a box

H in Addis, Monday, 2 August 2010 18:15 (fifteen years ago)

That song is not as bad as I wanted it to be. :(

no turkey unless it's a club sandwich (polyphonic), Monday, 2 August 2010 18:22 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

Gwyneth Paltrow visited the Spence School -- her high school alma mater -- last week to talk to the students and explain the many different levels of her awesomeness. The actress told the kids she hasn't had any theater training beyond what she learned from that very school many years ago. But she doesn't consider that to be a such a bad thing. In fact, she feels that's all the education she needed since her mother and her own instincts taught her everything she needed to know. She stated, “I studied drama here, but I didn’t study it past being at Spence ... My mother ... has done a lot of stage work. I got a great education from her ... and growing up here where I went to the theater all the time. I’ve developed my own technique, but the most important thing is your instincts."

I gave your mom morgellons (buzza), Friday, 18 November 2011 07:05 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.goop.com/journal/do/184/fly-better

Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 20 May 2013 20:10 (thirteen years ago)

ten months pass...

"consciously uncouple"

she is the best

lex pretend, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 22:42 (twelve years ago)

i just cannot work up much ill will toward this very solipsistic woman (even when she speaks of "causes," it's in a strikingly self-regarding way), maybe she is just too pretty.

espring (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 22:44 (twelve years ago)

yeah I want to hate her but don't. why cuz I shallow and she pretty.

akm, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 23:21 (twelve years ago)

I'm pro-Gwyneth. Efforts to demonize her for being out of touch or stuck up or too impressed with herself often strike me as hostile in a specifically sexist way. Not accusing Gwyneth haters here of sexism, but in general, it seems like she is a target because she is a woman who very clearly likes herself a great deal.

très hip (Treeship), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 23:28 (twelve years ago)

also to make a point that's been made many many times before it's easy to make fun of her for being out of touch with how most people live--she routinely recommends as "essential" items that would cost most of us a month's wages or more. maybe that is little to close to stereotypes of women as materialistic for comfort, but in her case it's pretty spot-on.

espring (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 23:36 (twelve years ago)

two years pass...

the $15,000 gold dildo is hilarious; gwyneth is classic beyond classic.

GOOP is far and away my favorite conceptual art prank media company

http://www.avclub.com/article/gwyneth-paltrow-thinks-you-might-15000-dildo-236666

Treeship, Friday, 13 May 2016 03:54 (ten years ago)

barf

i hate ilx stupid celeb worship one of the most annoying things about this place

opening post is nice vintage suzy though

Copyright (c) 2016 by Tough Jews, Inc. (map), Friday, 13 May 2016 04:36 (ten years ago)

i don't generally like celebrities too much but i like the idea of a magazine called goop that makes people irrationally angry by recommending they buy $15,000 gold dildos

Treeship, Friday, 13 May 2016 04:47 (ten years ago)

Why?

albvivertine, Friday, 13 May 2016 04:56 (ten years ago)

It's funny. She occupies an interesting niche in the culture -- a niche that is an object of rage

Treeship, Friday, 13 May 2016 05:24 (ten years ago)

He owns a $15,000 gold dildo manufacturer

xpost

🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Friday, 13 May 2016 05:31 (ten years ago)

i would shit in her mouth

karla jay vespers, Friday, 13 May 2016 05:59 (ten years ago)

She certainly inspires a range of reactions

albvivertine, Friday, 13 May 2016 06:01 (ten years ago)

one year passes...

I'm pro-Gwyneth. Efforts to demonize her for being out of touch or stuck up or too impressed with herself often strike me as hostile in a specifically sexist way. Not accusing Gwyneth haters here of sexism, but in general, it seems like she is a target because she is a woman who very clearly likes herself a great deal.

Or... maybe she is an anti-science grifter fraud.

http://nypost.com/2017/06/11/inside-gwyneth-paltrows-ridiculous-goop-summit/

a butt groove but for feet (DJP), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 19:13 (nine years ago)

god she's awful.

read that piece yesterday and had a good laugh, well written piece.

-_- (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 19:25 (nine years ago)

btw the secret as to why people loving all this expensive life extension wellness crap seem to be very healthy... is because they're rich, get exercise, and pay attention to what they eat

that's about it, feel free to keep paying for expensive mud and rocks, though

mh, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 19:34 (nine years ago)

Or... maybe she is an anti-science grifter fraud.

^ this!!! She was on kimmel or something last week and he asked her about "earthing" and she tried to explain and was then like "yeah, I don't know what the fuck we write about tbh" so not only does she endorse bullshit, she endorses bullshit she knows nothing about.

I think it was when she started touting the vaginal steam baths that I just couldn't anymore. She really is just fucking insufferable.

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 19:35 (nine years ago)

Between that and then "jade yoni eggs" I'm starting to wonder why she's so concerned with getting ladies to do things/put things in their vaginas tbh. Self-cleaning oven, GP. Everyone knows that.

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 19:37 (nine years ago)

lol ENBB, there's a clip of that Kimmel appearance in the article I linked

a butt groove but for feet (DJP), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 19:49 (nine years ago)

Ha! She's just terrible.

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 20:07 (nine years ago)

the whole "we shouldn't eat nightshades because they're native to the americas and we're not" bit had me dying

-_- (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 20:12 (nine years ago)

"we're"

nomar, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 20:12 (nine years ago)

well, consider the audience

cast your vote for fully automated gay space luxury communism (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 20:13 (nine years ago)

imo it all comes from a realization that no matter how Goop you are, you still are a mortal human with human problems so you spend money on a bunch of shit that claims otherwise

mh, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 20:23 (nine years ago)

Goop does not exist
But if it does
It costs $500

a butt groove but for feet (DJP), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 20:26 (nine years ago)

goop is dead
no one cares

mh, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 20:38 (nine years ago)

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jun/14/gwyneth-glows-like-a-radioactive-swan-my-day-at-the-goop-festival

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 16:59 (nine years ago)

She occupies an interesting niche in the culture -- a niche that is an object of rage

it's pretty easy to find a celebrity on the internet that people complain about how is this an interesting niche

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 20:33 (nine years ago)

oh gwyneth is a particularly hated celeb. makes ann hathaway seem like chris pratt

-_- (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 20:50 (nine years ago)

i always see people saying that about anne hathaway....i thought she was america's sweetheart but i guess at some point she turned into miles teller.

nomar, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 21:05 (nine years ago)

i never really got why ppl hated anne hathaway?

Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 21:08 (nine years ago)

princess diaries 2 was a real disappointment

cast your vote for fully automated gay space luxury communism (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 21:15 (nine years ago)

Basically, Anne Hathaway was too earnest in an interview and every hipster in America decided she was faking it.

a butt groove but for feet (DJP), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 21:20 (nine years ago)

she isn't blonde and comes off as confident most of the time

mh, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 21:29 (nine years ago)

or, I guess, too earnest? idk, people make weird judgments of these actors they can never know

mh, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 21:30 (nine years ago)

yes i don't understand the anne hathaway thing. i don't particularly enjoy her work but not sure that she's remotely hateful

-_- (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 21:35 (nine years ago)

at some point she turned into miles teller.

― nomar, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 22:05

What wrong with him?

Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 22:06 (nine years ago)

Hathaway hate came with the mass realization that America's Sweetheart was really America's High School Drama Club President, or maybe the whole she was in a LTR w/a noted swindler thing...

to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 22:13 (nine years ago)

When I'm married to Anne Hathaway this thread is going to be an awkward artefact

May o God help us (darraghmac), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 22:46 (nine years ago)

i stand 100% behind my comment on princess diaries 2, there'll be no grace and favour here

cast your vote for fully automated gay space luxury communism (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 22:49 (nine years ago)

Wow rude

May o God help us (darraghmac), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 22:49 (nine years ago)

i'm sorry, it's just the way i feel

cast your vote for fully automated gay space luxury communism (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 22:50 (nine years ago)

But deems and Anne will run away to another galaxy, you know.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 22:56 (nine years ago)

xposts esquire ran this Miles Teller interview a couple years back and he sounds like an enormous douchebag. It's kind of notorious, that piece.

nomar, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 23:01 (nine years ago)

Whatever do you mean with a title like that

http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/interviews/a36894/miles-teller-interview-0915/

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 23:02 (nine years ago)

He recounts a direct message he—a twenty-eight-year-old actor still trying to find his place in his profession—sent to five-time NBA champion Kobe Bryant through Twitter

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 23:02 (nine years ago)

He should found his own wellness thing, Plop.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 23:03 (nine years ago)

Now Carey Mulligan. You guys still haven't explained that one to me.

Hathaway hate came with the mass realization that America's Sweetheart was really America's High School Drama Club President

― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 23:13

What's wrong with that?

Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 23:10 (nine years ago)

This may be as good as you get for Mulligan

http://www.thegloss.com/beauty/celebrities-we-irrationally-hate-carey-mulligan-594/

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 23:10 (nine years ago)

Such a short article. She's hotter than Megan Fox.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 23:18 (nine years ago)

iirc the only problem with hathaway was that gabbneb ~luvved~ her?

mookieproof, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 23:52 (nine years ago)

Is that a tilde or an attempt to blend

quet inn tarnation (darraghmac), Thursday, 15 June 2017 00:00 (nine years ago)

drama club is bad, it's all coming back to me now, but I can forgive anne

mh, Thursday, 15 June 2017 00:19 (nine years ago)

carey mulligan in Shame as this woman who seems like a normal person who has some problems with an extremely fucked up brother who drove her to the edge still makes me feel bad

mh, Thursday, 15 June 2017 00:21 (nine years ago)

tbh maybe gwyneth is looking for the perfect spiritual cleanse to get that coldplay dude's stench off her soul

tbh he's no worse really

mh, Thursday, 15 June 2017 00:22 (nine years ago)

I feel sick that movie was even approved. Every Michael Fassbender movie should have a scene in which Fassbender makes love to himself so he doesn't have to connect with other people on screen.

the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 June 2017 00:22 (nine years ago)

pvmic

mh, Thursday, 15 June 2017 00:31 (nine years ago)

Was she good in the Sylvia Plath movie ? I don't remember

calstars, Thursday, 15 June 2017 00:48 (nine years ago)

Maybe she's a good example of when celebrities tend to overshare. Just shut up and make movies?

calstars, Thursday, 15 June 2017 00:50 (nine years ago)

I really like Carey mulligan

calstars, Thursday, 15 June 2017 00:51 (nine years ago)

Was she good in the Sylvia Plath movie ? I don't remember

― calstars,

she was OK playing a Plath-esque character in The Royal Tennenbaums.

the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 June 2017 00:54 (nine years ago)

I like all eccentric, out of touch movie stars, the zanier the better

Treeship, Thursday, 15 June 2017 01:27 (nine years ago)

OJ

quet inn tarnation (darraghmac), Thursday, 15 June 2017 11:01 (nine years ago)

this will always be hilarious

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/06/15/21/416CDA0500000578-4608850-image-m-134_1497557864589.jpg

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 15 June 2017 20:58 (nine years ago)

the odd couple

mh, Thursday, 15 June 2017 21:05 (nine years ago)

http://nypost.com/2017/06/11/inside-gwyneth-paltrows-ridiculous-goop-summit/

attention vampire (MatthewK), Friday, 16 June 2017 12:35 (nine years ago)

'm pro-Gwyneth. Efforts to demonize her for being out of touch or stuck up or too impressed with herself often strike me as hostile in a specifically sexist way. Not accusing Gwyneth haters here of sexism, but in general, it seems like she is a target because she is a woman who very clearly likes herself a great deal.

Or... maybe she is an anti-science grifter fraud.

http://nypost.com/2017/06/11/inside-gwyneth-paltrows-ridiculous-goop-summit/

― a butt groove but for feet (DJP), Tuesday, June 13, 2017 7:13 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

André Ryu (Neil S), Friday, 16 June 2017 12:37 (nine years ago)

Apologies, 'twas above the fold on my view.

attention vampire (MatthewK), Friday, 16 June 2017 12:44 (nine years ago)

probably deserved a re-post TBH

André Ryu (Neil S), Friday, 16 June 2017 12:45 (nine years ago)

Tbf, reasonable people have begun to caution against Advil/Aleve. But on most other things, yeah, she's a nut/naif.

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 June 2017 12:47 (nine years ago)


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